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Ask HN: Are there any tools to diagram long email chains?

It turns out that I have been missing some important background on long email chains. When my directors have a 1-on-1 conversation with each other, then loop me in, Gmail threading mode seems to suppress the messages that I wasn’t a recipient to. This has been an ongoing problem for me, but now I’m stuck trying to sort through the extra crumbs left behind, when recipients change on reply/forward and it’s starting to get really annoying. Are there any tools out there to draw a diagram or organize my email chains in any better format?

HPsquared 5y ago
This is called email thread visualization. Relativity have a product (I've not used it) which shows the email chain as a graph. http://www.bgc.design/etv.html http://www.bgc.design/etv.html
- alexvoda 5y ago
  That looks cool, but I do not see it featured on Relativity's website and their pricing page is the "contact sales" kind. IOW, this is irrelevant for individuals.
leephillips 5y ago
Yes, the tool is called mutt. Your problem is that you’re not using a real email client. Gmail is broken. https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/ https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/
- VeninVidiaVicii 5y ago
  Fantastic. I was vaguely aware of mutt in the 90s, but had completely forgotten about it.
replwoacause 5y ago
Are you talking about something like this? https://www.prettyfwd.com https://www.prettyfwd.com